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Commentary © 2008 Richard J. Chandler & Bonnett Chandler
Malcolm ForbesMalcolm Forbes became publisher of the magazine Forbes on his father’s death in 1954. The magazine grew steadily under his leadership and the publication became one of America's most successful business magazines, with a circulation of 735,000. Its annual list of the richest 400 people in America is one of the most widely quoted sources on the subject of wealth in the United States.
Legendary for his lavish lifestyle, he chose Tangier, Morocco as the country to host his 70th birthday party. Spending an estimated $2.5 million, he chartered a Boeing 747, a DC-8 and a Concorde to fly in eight hundred of the world's rich and famous from New York and London. The guests included his friend Elizabeth Taylor (who acted as a co-host), Gianni Agnelli, Robert Maxwell, Barbara Walters, Henry Kissinger, half a dozen US state governors, and CEOs of scores of multinational corporations.
Malcolm Forbes became an avid motorcyclist late in life. He founded and rode with a motorcycle club called the 'Capitalist Tools'.
“It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.”
“Let your children go if you want to keep them.”
“Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.”
“Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.”“Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.”
“Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.”
“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.”
“Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don’t understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn’t a business.”
“If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.”
“If you have a job without any aggravations, you don’t have a job.”
“It’s more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.”
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
“Contrary to the cliché, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.”
“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”
“One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.”“When you cease to dream you cease to live.”
- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
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Walt DisneyKnown as one of the most influential and innovative figures in the field of 20th century entertainment, Walt Disney was an American film producer, animator and philanthropist. In reading an encyclopedia article about the life of Walt Disney, what strikes us most about him, as evidenced by the multitude and scope of his accomplishments, was his capacity to dream up a vision that had not previously existed; then, in the face of extraordinary obstacles to enacting his vision, move the vision forward until it was a newly created reality.
He first did this as an artist and animator, creating many famous cartoon characters including his own alter ego, Mickey Mouse. He created synchronizations of music, sound effects and voices along with the animation as entertaining shorts and eventually into the full-length film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, created from 1934 to1937. It was the highest grossing film of 1938 with revenues exceeding 8,000,000.
Not content with animation only, Disney went on to produce films with people as actors, developed his theme park ‘Disneyland’ and had his own TV show, (which Bonnett and I remember watching as kids).
He was a major donor to the California Institute of Technology and left one quarter of his estate to the school. He died of lung cancer at the age of 65 just a few years prior the opening of ‘Disney World’ in Orlando Florida.
“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
“All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.”
“I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.”
“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.”
“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.”
“Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.”
“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
“Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.”
“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
“I do not like to repeat successes; I like to go on to other things.”“When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artists to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.”
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)
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Aretha FranklinThe youngest recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor and the first black woman to appear on the cover of Time magazine, Aretha Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Known for many years as “The Queen of Soul”, she is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, and gospel. Franklin has won nineteen Grammy Awards in total during her nearly half-century long career (she first charted in 1961), and currently holds the record for most Best Female R&B Vocal Performance wins with eleven to her name, as well as the Living Legend Grammy and the Lifetime Achievement Grammy as well. On February 8, 2008 Franklin will be honored as MusiCares Person of the Year. In 1987, she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She has an honorary ‘Doctor of Musicology’ degree from the University of Detroit, an honorary ‘Doctor of Music’ degree by the Berklee College of Music, and an honorary ‘Doctor of Music’ degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1999, she was awarded ‘The National Medal of Arts’ by President Clinton and in 2005, she was awarded ‘The Presidential Medal of Freedom’ by President George W. Bush. She sang at Clinton’s Inaugural gala as well as at Martin Luther King’s funeral and in 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked her #9 on their list of the ‘100 Greatest Artists of All Time’. Her powerful voice and massive vocal range caused the Michigan legislature to declare her voice one of the state’s natural resources.
·“If a song’s about something I’ve experienced or that could’ve happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn’t lend anything to it. Because that’s what soul is all about.”
“I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.”
“Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I’ve never been away!”
“I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That’s the hardest thing more than anything else.”
“Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don’t, it hurts even more.”
“I am Aretha, upbeat, straight-ahead, and not to be worn out by men and left singing the blues.”
“I never felt inferior or less than. I was blessed to grow up in a environment where self-worth was underscored.”
“If I have reached the goal of being a good mother, and have been a guiding light and have inspired my sons to be proud, creative, independent, and productive citizens, then I have reached a priceless pinnacle in parenting.”
– Aretha Franklin (1942- )
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Muhammad Yunus with
entrepreneur & her business projectA Bangladeshi banker, professor of economics, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus is famous for his successful application of micro credit. Against the advice of banks and government, Yunus began giving out 'micro-loans' to the poor, and in 1983 formed the Grameen Bank, meaning 'village bank', founded on principles of trust and solidarity. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Grameen methods are applied in projects in 58 countries, including the US, Canada, France, The Netherlands and Norway. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton was a vocal advocate for awarding the Nobel Prize to Muhammed Yunus. In 2007, Business Week magazine named Dr. Yunus as one of “The Greatest Entrepreneurs of All Time.” “What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells a hot dog on the street is as much an entrepreneur as anyone else. Getting his $50 loan to start could be as difficult as finding $50 million for someone else. All people are entrepreneurs.”
“Poverty is unnecessary.”
“Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.”
“I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.”
“This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.”
“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.”
“Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.”
“I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.”
“I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don’t have the opportunity to find that out.”
“If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university.”
- Muhammad Yunus (1940-)
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Bill CosbyBill Cosby, who in addition to receiving eight honorary degrees, with all but one being doctorate degrees, earned his Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he grew up, and earned his Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1972 and his (Ed.D.) Doctorate in Education in 1977 from the University of Massachusetts. His dissertation had the rather unique title of: An Integration of the Visual Media via Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids Into the Elementary School Curriculum as a Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieve Increased Learning.
He wasn’t always so committed to education. Due to working a great deal early in the morning before school as well as after school in the afternoons and evenings to help support his family combined with too much joking around in class, Cosby failed the 10th grade. He apprenticed with a shoe repair business then enlisted in the Navy for four years where he worked as a Hospital Corpsman doing physical therapy for Korean War Vets. After the service, he completed his high school equivalency through correspondence courses then won a track scholarship to Temple University. He left after his sophomore year to pursue a career in comedy and returned to complete his degree after a number of successful years performing and producing his comedy routines as LP’s. He continued with his successful comedy and acting career as well as excelling in higher education as noted above. More recently, he is known for his strong advocacy for education and a strong work ethic as the prescription for achievement.
“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”
“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”
“The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.”
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
“There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.”
“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.”
- Bill Cosby (1937- )
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Dr.Phil McGraw & his esteemed colleague, Dr. FeelAn American television personality, psychologist and author, Dr. Phil McGraw is the host of the psychology themed television show, Dr. Phil. In 1996, Oprah Winfrey hired Phil McGraw to prepare her for the Amarillo Texas beef trial. Winfrey was so impressed with him that she credited him for her victory in that case, which ended in 1998. Soon after, she invited him to appear on her show. His appearance proved so successful that he began appearing weekly, and in 2002, he was given his own syndicated daily TV show, produced by Winfrey’s Harpo Studios. Dr. Phil tackles a different topic on each show, offering advice for his guests’ troubles. In Psychology Today, journalist Pamela Paul writes that McGraw “knows what’s best and he’s not afraid to tell you. Dr. Phil issues counsel as marching orders.” McGraw himself admits that “I’m not the Hush-Puppies™, pipe and ‘Let’s talk about your mother’ kind of psychologist.” McGraw has also authored a number of self-help books covering the topics of esteem, relationships and weight loss.
“Awareness without action is worthless.”
“It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.”
“What is the cost to be where you are?”
“Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.
“If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.”“Life rewards action.”
“You are accountable for your life. Good or bad, successful or unsuccessful, happy or sad, fair or unfair, you own your life.”
“You will never, ever fix your problems blaming someone else. That is for losers. Don’t be a sucker just because it hurts to admit the truth.”
“I am not “just a” anything. I must always be willing to look at new, old, anything. I cannot define myself with a label. I must find my internal truth.”
“Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.”
“The quickest way from A to B is not always at the most feverish pace.”
“You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.”
“Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday?”
“We teach people how to treat us.”
“Know and embrace your passions. They are your core. They make you blossom.”
- Phil McGraw (1950- )
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Two success quotes by Albert Schweitzer...
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
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